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Spring 2013
Aug 17,2017

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MATH 441 - HISTORY OF MATH

This course will emphasize the beauty of mathematical ideas and their historical development. The course will survey mathematics starting with the Babylonians, Egyptians, and Greeks through the rise of Islamic mathematics and up to the present time. Topics will be chosen to represent the important fields of mathematics (e.g., algebra, analysis, geometry, and number theory) and to represent the greatest thinkers (e.g., Euclid, Fermat, Euler, Leibniz, Newton, Gauss, Cauchy, and Riemann). This is a capstone math course, required of all math majors.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Mathematics Department

Course Attributes: TS-Sch Core- SCP Category, WRITING INTENSIVE

Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels:
Undergraduate

Prerequisites:
FOR MATH 441

General Requirements: (
Course or Test:
MATH
416
Minimum Grade of
D
May be taken concurrently.
and
Course or Test:
MATH
432
Minimum Grade of
D
May not be taken concurrently.
)